Author:
Annie Murray
Title:
The Narrowboat Girl
Genre:
Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical,
Romance,
I
was given this book.
This
book has 457 pages and 48 chapters in it.
I
would tell people that you should step outside your comfort zone with
books because it is good to add more authors and genres to your
reading portfolio. Even if you do not read books like this.
I
normally read books of this genre but l also stepped outside my
comfort zone with authors and genres l am so glad l did because l
have read so many great books and come across some great authors.
I
highly recommend this book.
Synopsis:
Young Maryann nelson is devastated at the loss of her beloved
father.But worse is to come when her mother Flo, sees an opportunity
to better herself and her family in a marriage to the local
undertaker Norman griffin. Through on the surface a caring family
man, Norman is not at all what he seems. As Maryann and her sister Sally soon discovers. Unable to turn to their unsympathetic mother
for support, the girls are left alone with their harrowing secret.
But for Sally it is too much too bear... The chance of a new life
opens up for Maryann when she befriends Joel Bartholomew. Aboard his
narrowboat, the Esther Jane, she finds herself falling in love with
life on the canal as she is swept away from Birmingham and all her
worries. Until Joel's feelings for Maryann begin to change, awakening
all the old nightmares that she thought long buried, and in panic and
confusion she takes flight... Maryann runs away and works in a house
for a bit until one day she chooses to go down to the boats to see if
the Esther Jane is there and she does not see Joel, his Father or Ada
she seen Joel's brother Darius and she asked about his father who was
also named Darius and Ada but their sister Ada had drowned four years
ago and Maryann started to cry she had to wipe tears away and she
says she was a good one your sister and Darius said Joel was in
hospital because he was very ill with his lungs and Maryann offered
to go see Joel in hospital and seeing Joel made Maryann realize she really did love Joel and Maryann's sister Sally had took her own life
after what Norman did to her and she could not take any more. Maryann burnt down Norman's business and Norman left her mother after that. Maryann's mother did not like that her daughter had to say about
Norman she called Maryann a dirty liar. Maryann asked her brother
Tony to found out where Norman is so she can face him and her brother
finds him and he is living with another mother and her two daughters
and one reminds Maryann of the way Sally looked and she confronts the
woman and told her everything that he did to Maryann and Sally and
the woman did not believe Maryann and her daughters said you are not
going to be here to stop it.
Review:
I found this book really easy to get in to and hard to put down once
l started reading it and l have the follow on to this book it is
called the water gypsies and l would say to have both so you can
carry on the story. I really liked reading about MaryAnn and siblings
being with their father and getting a kitten and how they use to go
meet their father from work until he got hit by a car and sadly
passed away. Their mother married Norman Griffin and l found it hard
to read what he did to Sally and MaryAnn and to them other innocent
girl it was horrible and it was upsetting to read that Sally and Maryann's mother did not believe them. I was sad to read that Norman waited until Flo's niece was dying to rape MaryAnn. It was sad to
read that Maryann's baby cousin passed away and so did her beloved Nan and Norman killed all the animals that her Nan had by breaking
their necks and he killed Maryann's precious kitten tiger that her
father got her before he passed away. I was sad to read that Sally
took her own life after the what Norman did to her and l was glad MaryAnn burnt his business down. I was sad that Norman moved on to
another woman with her two daughters. I was sad that Joel's mother
Esther had died and Ada drowned. I was glad MaryAnn was helping
Margaret and Amy tell their mother who did not believe them at first
and then Margaret set him on fire after he raped her in front of Amy
it is a very sad book but there is some good parts. I was glad
Margaret and Amy's mother believed them and Amy Made her way to
Nancy's house where Maryann was staying. I can not believe Maryann's mother did not believe what he was doing to them. Maryann's mother hates MaryAnn because Norman left her because she had no daughters at
home. I was happy to read that Maryann married Joel and Joel did not
die. I was glad to read that Nancy got out of her abuses marriage and
gets with Darius wish she could of married Darius though. She goes to
live with him on a boat and l was sad to read that Joel and Darius's
father had to stay on dry land with his sister because he was getting
to poorly to be on the boat. Maryann had a son with Joel and names him after his father and she finds out she is pregnant again. Maryann said if the baby was a girl they would name her Sally or Ada because
they had both sadly passed away. Maryann was angry that when Sally
died her mother buried her as a griffin not nelson that was their
father's surname. Maryann's mother sounds like she did not care about her children she only cares about the money and trying to better
herself no matter the cost. Maryann's mother hates Nancy's mother.
About
The Author: Annie Murray was born in 1960 in Berkshire, and studied English at oxford university. Her first job took her to Birmingham where she met her husband, John. They have four children. In 1992 she
began writing her first Birmingham novel, Birmingham rose, which made
the times bestseller list when it was published in 1995. She has
written six subsequent novels including, most recently, the highly
successful chocolate girls.
About
The Book: l love this cover and this book has two different covers
and l love the front.
Stars
Rating: Five Out Of Five Stars.
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